FAQs

Educational therapy focuses on simultaneously remediating academic challenges, while targeting the underlying cognition. LFA provides a specific therapy plan, which allows our Therapeutic Tutors to better individualize every session.

Orton-Gillingham is a structured literacy approach that is explicit in its teaching to help build foundational skills needed to build a sound and symbol connection. Barton Reading and Spelling utilizes an Orton-Gillingham approach to reading and spelling, because it is explicit, multisensory, sequential and mastery-based.

The first step is for one of our Directors to complete an initial intake call to gather more information and determine the appropriate screening.

No, if you would like to end services, we require a minimum of two weeks notice.

Yes, a screening is required prior to beginning services with LFA. The screening allows our Directors to obtain a better understanding of a learner as a whole, because they are looking at the academic skills and cognitive processes together. It provides opportunity for our Directors to observe how a learner responds to mediation, how they visually and auditorily respond to information- which often cannot be extracted from reading a written report. An individualized plan is constructed, in addition to allowing Directors to make recommendations for a good fit regarding the Therapeutic Tutor their learner will work with at LFA.

No, LFA cannot provide a formal diagnosis.

Yes, we can provide referrals to outside providers after completing the screening process.

While every journey varies, progress is also dependent upon the consistency and frequency of sessions per week.

Students with learning challenges such as ADHD and Dyslexia need consistent and intensive support, typically requiring a minimum of two sessions per week. This frequency ensures that we can achieve meaningful growth and progress. Without this consistency, sessions may focus more on review, resulting in slower progress.

Yes, we encourage a collaborative effort to provide a learner with consistent and continued support.

Since we are not physicians or doctors, we cannot give any diagnosis codes, which is typically what insurance companies need to cover costs. That being said, some families have used insurance and FSA accounts to pay or be reimbursed for our servicves. We can supply you with customized invoices for these situations.

Yes, we provide a Scholarship Rate for families with financial need. Enrollment in this program is at the discretion of LFA and includes specific requirements.

We provide services to learners ages five through adult.

Our Therapeutic Tutors receive 100 hours of training, which includes observations and coteachings. They have at least a Bachelor’s degree with their profiles and qualifications found on our website.

Yes, at most your child will only see two different Therapeutic Tutors, given that rapport is an essential aspect to a learner’s growth and progress.

Yes, we offer both fully online sessions and hybrid schedules, which include one session in person and one session online.

We provide services in our Point Loma and Scripps Ranch clinics, as well as on campus with our partnered schools in the community.

No, we do not send any additional assignments home. Our Therapeutic Tutors may send visuals and flashcards that better help students generalize their skills, but they will never have any homework to complete.

LFA provides an initial consult, after your learner has been in our program for 6 months, as well as an annual consult, which provides updated testing scores.

Every learner’s experience and rate of progress varies. To support progress, we recommend that learners continue to practice the strategies used in sessions. For those in the lower levels of the Orton-Gillingham-based program, listening to audiobooks can be beneficial. As learners show more interest in reading, we encourage controlled text reading to help them build good reading habits.

We encourage parents to remain in the lobby, during the session, to allow for our Therapeutic Tutors to build rapport with learners and better understand how to support them in session.